This Week In Skating / September 5, 2022

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EPISODE NOTES

Eva Pate and Logan Bye on “This Week in Skating”

Event Results Brief

• ISU Junior Grand Prix Czech Skate Results
• ISU Junior Grand Prix Czech Skate Video Playlist
• SEA Open Figure Skating Trophy
• Skate Houston
• Golden West Championships
• 20th Annual Labor Day Invitational
• Skate Canada’s annual High Performance Camp - Beverley Smith’s article

General Skating News

• ISU posted entries for the ISU Nebelhorn Trophy in Oberstdorf, Germany scheduled for September. 20-24.

• ISU posted the entries for the fifth Junior Grand Prix - Solidarity Cup in Gdansk, Poland (includes pairs). First of two JGP events in Gdansk. 

• U.S. Figure Skating has confirmed that Gracie Gold and Lorraine McNamara and Anton Spirdinov will compete at Skate America, Oct. 21-23 at the Skating Club of Boston in Norwood.

• Skate Canada announced that the 2022-2023 Skate Canada Challenge for pre-novice and novice skaters will be held at Evraz Place in Regina, Saskatchewan from January 25-28, 2023.

• Bradie Tennell is the final member of Team North America for the Japan Open

Recent Interviews

• U.S. Figure Skating did an interview with Audrey Lu on skating as a single skater on the collegiate level and going to school at UCLA. 

• The Herald Newspaper in Everett, Washington named Jean-Luc Baker their 2021-22 Man of the Year in Sports and did a story on him.

• Phil Hersh interviewed Bradie Tennell for NBC Sports on her foot injury and her move to Nice, France.

• U.S. Figure Skating Fan Zone article on Sonia Baram & Daniel Tioumentsev before their JGP debut in Ostrava. 

• CBC did an interview with Scott Moir, who credited his coaches-turned colleagues for rediscovering love of skating.

Social Media Updates

• Gracie Gold will receive the 2022 Bell of Hope Award from the Mental Health Partnerships in Philadelphia during the 23rd Annual Bell of Hope Celebration Oct. 6. Ticket information. 

• Retired Canadian pairs skater Lubov Ilyushechkina will be teaching a fall seminar in November at the Strathcona Paper Center in Napenee, Ontario.

• Brandon Frazier is going to be on Hustler Casino Live Poker Show again on September 5.

• Olexandra Nazarova will be working with Team Savchenko - an online technique, conditioning and yoga classes. 

• Sun Valley Resort tweeted on Sept. 2 that the final show of their summer shows had to be canceled due a’ “significant mechanical issue”. Headliners were supposed to be Alysa Liu and Jason Brown. Jason’s Instagram photos showed them biking and enjoying the sunshine in Idaho: 

Upcoming Events for the Week

• ISU Junior Grand Prix - Latvia, Riga - Sept. 6-10, 2022

• The 96th Annual Middle Atlantic Figure Skating Championships - Chelsea Piers, NY - Sept. 8-11, 2022. NQS event for singles and pairs. 

• John Nicks Pairs Challenge - it is an ISU international competition for pairs and it takes place during Middle Atlantics. 

• Greater Chicagoland Invitational - Evanston, Illinois - Sept. 9-11, 2022. NQS event for singles and pairs. 

• Skate St. Moritz - Oakland, California - Sept. 9-11, 2022. NQS event for singles and pairs.

• John Smith Memorial - Indian Trails, North Carolina -  Sept. 9-11, 2022. NQS event for singles. 

• Meryl Davis and Charlie White will be inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame on Saturday, September 10.  UPDATE: Tickets are SOLD OUT!

IDC and FSO spotlight

• IDC: Getting to know Jenna Hauer and Benjamin Starr
• IDC: Getting to know Elizabeth Tkachenko & Alexei Kiliakov
• FSO: Articles coming this week at FSO!